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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5864768" data-attributes="member: 58197">I wholeheartedly agree with &quot;armor should be appropriate to the environment and the culture.&quot; I'm really happy to see more elements of real-world culture being brought into the art. And I love the take on designing armor for male and female warriors that is clearly of similar purpose and origin, without necessarily being identical. The outfits of those two warriors are pefect.All that makes me feel a little bad about bringing this up, but the poses of those same warriors bug me.&nbsp; They belong on the same battlefield, but the woman doesn't look like she's actually on a battlefield. The man is posed for combat. He's in a fighting crouch with his feet well apart, he's got a firm grip on his weapon, he's brandishing it ready to swing, his shield is up, he's yelling a battle cry. The woman is posed... well, she's posed. She's standing straight, smiling, her feet are tight together, and she's doing that thing where you're on the ball of one foot and the flat of the other. Her mace is loosely held and her shield is down.It's not a huge deal, and I'm certainly not saying the female warrior is in a cheesecakey &quot;come-hither&quot; pose like we often saw in the Elmore days. Taken just as it is, this picture is miles better than most fantasy art. But it still bugs me, a little.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5864768, member: 58197"] I wholeheartedly agree with "armor should be appropriate to the environment and the culture." I'm really happy to see more elements of real-world culture being brought into the art. And I love the take on designing armor for male and female warriors that is clearly of similar purpose and origin, without necessarily being identical. The outfits of those two warriors are pefect. All that makes me feel a little bad about bringing this up, but the poses of those same warriors bug me. They belong on the same battlefield, but the woman doesn't look like she's actually [I]on[/I] a battlefield. The man is posed for combat. He's in a fighting crouch with his feet well apart, he's got a firm grip on his weapon, he's brandishing it ready to swing, his shield is up, he's yelling a battle cry. The woman is posed... well, she's posed. She's standing straight, smiling, her feet are tight together, and she's doing that thing where you're on the ball of one foot and the flat of the other. Her mace is loosely held and her shield is down. It's not a huge deal, and I'm certainly not saying the female warrior is in a cheesecakey "come-hither" pose like we often saw in the Elmore days. Taken just as it is, this picture is miles better than most fantasy art. But it still bugs me, a little. [/QUOTE]

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